Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4423
Page 289
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P. DeBenedictis 1964 Journal-25 5 June Made River Coal Mine, 157°25'N, 70°24'W. A lochan stabilized at 880 x 400 meters (30.5 acres), but which was to go to 700 x 400 meters. I feel like it. There are only 3-4 f. Longspurs, a 8 peckard, a f. Pturnigian, and 2" pairs of Semipodis, a pair of dundus are partly on the plot. Came in about 6 to see what was here. A Myrtle warbler was feeding along the edge of the cliff and the usual shrebirds in the areas where they have been in the past. 4 Long-tail Janggers were bombing the local Parachutes and 2 longtail wees were cleaning to neat off a Pturnigian bird that has been here several days. Not a lot of shrebird noise. A white- crowned Sparrow, Redpoll, and a 5 slate-colored Tinea in camp, and several jaages coming over going east from 8 to 9 A.M., including 4 Povarines. Arctician Sandpiper in the village was not singing, and one group of ? King Eiders went over about 9, as well as another lone. At noon gulls congregating on the river, and pintail around the camp area in pools. Wagtails all over this place. Activity was very low 11 to 3, then mostly song and cheese, for the next 2½ hrs. Feeding became obvious only by 5 A.M., when it had become quite bright and the fog was gone. Evident much influx of jaages phalacrope and pectorals during this day, but they are far from common. Thought I saw a second species of warbler in camp but never got a good